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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
BABY BEASTS At A zoo.

A Mother Monkey and Her Daughter.
Tho Jaguar's 'kid''-rhe Lioness' Cubs.
Many of the females have become moth
ers, and the most interesting feature yes
terday was to watch the various ways in
which the maternal instinct or care WAS
manifested In a cage with the mandrilis
and huge rainbow hued balloons, whose
variegated hues in the dazzling sunlight
no painter can portray. are confined
several Macaiques- One of the females
of the latter family some two months
since became a mother, and the little
shaver is just old enough To be interesting
As the cage was approached the mother.
with the young one clinging to her breast
holding ON to the hairs. jumped from a
horizontal bar in the middle of the cage
to the parallel upright bars IA front. and,
sliding down, mother and daughter sat
ON their Launches peering out. The
mother monkey never lets the daughter
move but a few inches from her side,
pulling her by the tail when she goes too
far. Sometimes the other monkeys
annoy the mother, but the male mandriII
soon settles them. for he seems to have
taken great fancy to the little fellow.
and has taken him under his especial at
tention, and as he is the terror of the
monkey world, and one of the u.lieS5
animals at the garden. his word Is law
and the mother for the most part is I'M
molested. She sat ON her launches and
relished the pieces of pretzels that Were
passed through to her, but the daughter
was not old enough to take nourisilment
that way.
The jaglIar, which has a kid about
three months old, resents the intrusion of
any impertinent eyes, and if the little
fellow has crawled to the front of the
cage, and visitor looks too sharply.
pulls it snappingly back with her sharp
left paw. When visitors come i'm mum
bers she seizes it in her mouth and car
ries it to the extreme rear of the cage.
drops it in the darkness and straw and
quickly comes, with glaring eyes and
cat like tread to the bars, showing her
sharp teeth, with as much as to say:
No. YOU shan't have it, Considering
that she has eaten up three filters before.
such precautions seems slightly super
fluOus.
The leopardess Lucy also had a young
one that she has manifested so strong "A
desire to eat up that the little girl Kit
tie, who news for her half pound of
chopped beef like "a kitten. had to he re-
moved to the adjoining cage, with Tom.
her father, whose fon,iness for his
daughter is So great that he allows her to
take the meat out of his mouth. Kittie
is ) months old. about rs large as a cat.
with sharp, cold gray eyes, and spots
that are darker than either those Of her
sire or dam. At night the cub sleeps
with her mother.
The lioness Katie has three cubs. now
II months old-Grover Cleveland, Fran
chs and Fanny one of them big
enough to whip n bull dog and able to do
it, too, which have to be fed i'm a cage 10y
themselves, where, when their food Is
thrown i'm, they vault over each others
backs and rush to and fro as playful
kittens.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
The Romance of n Poor Man,

A touching story comes from Essex.
A poor girl who died in the Brompton
hospital for consumptivcS expressed a
wish to De buried at Little Ilorkeslcy,
some fifty miles from London. Her
mother and stepfather were poor and
could not afford to carry out her wish in
the ordinary way. So the man. though
he happened to Ike i'll and weak at the
time, first made the coffin and then
wheeled the body down To its destination
on a handcart. 1t took him three days to
reach the Essex village. On the fourth
day he saw the girl buried, and her new
made grave decked with ''iiOwers from
the kitchen garden and the meadow
and then his task was done. The local
paper got wind of it, and SD the tale of
quiet heroism came out. Then, of course,
this man, Joseph Ball, had to be inter
viewed, and to help to make something
for the papers out of deed which, be-
yond doubt, in the doing of it, he thought
the most simple and natural thing in the
world. He took his little boy of 10 with
him, to give lift at the hills. On the
level road the boy had his lift in the
handcart with the corpse.
AT one of the places where they
stopped, some village Rumble wanted to
interfere, ON the plea that he was a de
tective- The passage in which this Incl
dent is related would not have been I'M
worthy of Bunyan: I'VE had bother,
and he would have forced open the coffin,
but my master is always stronger than
the devil, and he gave me strength to
struggle with the man and put him out
of the house." The inspector of police.
who afterward appeared ON the scene,
showed more common sense, and, after
taking the amateur undertaber's name
and address. let him go on his way. The
story ia perfect bit of quiet beauty as it
stands. and we dread to mar it with a
superfluous word. If great genius took
it in hand, he might make it imperish-
able. The poor have a way of doing
these fine things for one another without
knowing that anything has been done.
The last thing the poor cabinet maker
thought of. we may lie sure. was that his
walking funeral of fifty miles would get
into print.-LOndOn News.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
How to pisinfeet.

Owing to the popular belief that sue h
agents as destroy offensive odors are eff
fective disinfectants,t the Board of Health.
in and for Putnam County. desire to
call the attention Of the public to the
fact that chloride of lime is the most
powerful destroyer of disease germs.
In all cases where heat can be applied
1t is a certain disinfectant. Slaked lime.
operas and plaster are simple deordor-
isers and their employment is not to be
relied upon in guarding against disease.
The following is effectual and must be
freely used:
No. lone pound of chloride of lime
IN four gallons of soft water.
No. 2.-No. 2 is an active disinfeetaat.
Dissolve corrosive sublimate and per-
paanganate of potash, in soft water, in
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
IN THE CONTROLLERS HANDS.

Bank Examiner Campbell, Takes Posses
sion of the Palafka National Bank.
At called meeting of the stockholders
of the Palatka National Bank, yesterday,
President Dean reported the condition of
the institution, and offered a resolution
proposing that the bank go into liguida-
ton The matter was put to a vote and
failed to pass, lacking the necessary two
thirds vote.
A communication was then read from
the Comptroller of the Treasury, notify
ing the management that the bank
would be put forthwith in the hands of
Bank Examiner NJ. C. j. Campbell. of
Montgomery, Ala, who, upon the adj
JournInent of the meeting, took charge
of the bank as the representative of the
Treasury Department.
The investigation of the banks affairs
by the Bank Examiner will necessarily
take some time, and, in the meanwhile.
depositors must wait for their money.
The assets of the bank are ample
to meet the demands of the depositors i'm
full and leave a surplus, it is believed,
was not large, of late, and there is no
danger that the bank will not be found
solvent. The only inconvenience to the
depOsitors is that they must wait I'M
til the hank passes into the hands of a
receiver which is expected to he the
next step.
The Palatka National Bank, which
did business on Front street, nearly OPP
posite the post office, was incorporated
in 1884 and began business in early De-
cember of that year with a capital of
$4,000. Its principal protector was MIR.
t. h. Bishop. The news of the closing
of the bank will surprise few of our bus
mess men, as rumors that it would soon
go into liquidation Were current. What
effect the winding up of the Palatka Ma
tional Bank will have on the proposed
Savings Bank and Trust Company, the
bill to incorporate which passed the Sen
ate last night, is not known.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
POst-Omce Directory.
OFFICE HOURS.

General Delivery-Open at SD a. m; closes
Money orler-Open at SD n m; closes at
D. m
General Delivery ON Sunday From a. m. to
go a. m and after arrival of Northern mail.
MAILS ARRIVE AND CLOSE
Northern mail arrives at 10. Is a. m and Eli
ID. m: closes mt l0.aD "a. m. and 40 p m
jacksonville mail arrives at 81 y. m; closes
at 40 p. m.
Southern mail arrives at All a.. IN. and ILL
a. M; closes at 90 a. m. and LID p. IN.
ST. Augustine mail arrives at I'D a. m. and
500 d. m: closes at 10.50 u. m. and 40 y. IN.
valatka and Drayton Island mail arrives mt
10 10 a. m; closes at Ito p. m.
Palatka and Tocoi mail arrives at 1910 a. m;
closes at LILO p. M
Palatka and Daytona-Arrives at ll-O) n m,
leaves at 1-55 p. m.
Florida Southern Railway arrives at 40 p.
m: closes at $40 n IN.
Palatka and Bannersville-ArriveS every sat
urday at II NJ, and closes at II. II pm.
Northern mails ON sunday close mt 3.sD "a. IN.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
The Bij0u Comedy Com Dany.

Our citizens will be treated to a mu-
steal and dramatic entertainment at Fry 5
Opera House, next Tuesday evening, by
The programme will consist of Cups
and Saucers," a comic opera in which
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Hazlett will sustain
the principal (and only roles; mo. 1
Around the Corner" farce, and THE
Blind Beegars,' a comic opera Besides
Mr.. and Mrs. Hazlett, Messrs. Merrick
Shave and Chas. f. Stokes will take
part. Seats will be reserved at kersting's
drug store
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

he proportion of two drachms of each
salt to the gallon.
No. 3.-No. 3, it will be observed, is
far more PotrerTaI. Dissolve corrosive
sublimate in water in the proportion of
four ounces to the gallon of soft water.
and add one drachm of permanganate of
potash to give color to the solution
The last two solutions are rs,,y poison
Oas. OF the three the Board recon-
mends the chloride of lime.
BY ORDER BOARD OF HEALTH
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

Father Taylor one Sunday afternoon
was officiating at an infant baptism. and
the church was filled with large au-
dience as usual. The baby was restless
during the services, and when Father
Taylor took her in his arms she cried as
only infants can cry. But this didn't in
the least disturb the old minister, for,
raising the child in his arms where all
the people could see her, he said: Don't
blame the child for crying, but thank the
Lord that she has such good lungs
Concord IN H. Monitor
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
Customs and Entertainments in Russi.

Customs and Entertainments In Russia
A lady soiOurning in Russia writes to n
friend i'll this city from which we are per-
mitted to quote: The climate is delight
full i'll St. Petersburg. All palaces, CALLER
les and churcheS-In fact all places are
kept So warm that not a sensation of cold
Is experienced. No one ever wears WRAPS
into the salon; furs and csiloshes are taken
of by servants below stairs. \ gentleman
would as soon think of entering a draw
room minus his coat as with unpublished
boots. On entering a church or gallery
wraps are always left in an ante-chamber,
and there being no dressing rOOms-as in
America-at social entertainments. our
cII;i-seur removes these down stairs, takes
charge of them and puts them ON again.
Court balls here are the most magnificent
in the world, ami certain cerenonials are
magnificent beyond description. such as
tine grand fete of the Epiphany, the Three
Kings and the Blessings of the Waters.
Recall your impressions of the Arabian
Nights, and imagine the most gorgeous
ceremony possible To conceive, and YOU
will get but a faint idea of the gorgeous
ness of these ceremOnials.
Ii is surprising To hear Russian ladies
speak English SO well. And it is not I'M
common for children To be taught Eng
lish before any other language. OF
course French is the language of society.
In summer the city is deserted and given
over To repairs; hut it is good time to
see the sights and environs. Americans
seem to feel it a sort of disgrace not to he
born with a knowledge of French; but if
foreigner knows two or three words
only of English he delights to make use
of them.-Detroit Free Press.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
An Ounee of Prevention.

The satisfaction of feeling safe from
catching any disease from drinking wa
ter, from impure air, from sick person,
from contact with foul clothing, infec
ton or contagion from any source Is
complete. and all anxiety allayed by the
use of Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. A
bottle will give more safety, comfort
and confidence than all the doctoring in
the world
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

What sudden sense OF happy cheer
Breaks cut and foods the lip with songi
The day is dark. the day is drear
The heavy sky does life q wrong
But light the step as though with wings
Through shining skies We lz.ughed and sped,
And fight the babbhng joy and springs,
Led on what slight and viewless thread,
Sing on. sing on, though wild winds blow!
For, under all the chill and dearth,
In sunless depths, we feel, We know
The spring has stirred in the old earth
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

Eastern Florida, threatening ,cedther,
rain and nearly stationary temperature;
winds generally southeasterly. Western
Florida, local rains, nearly stationary
temperature, light, raridtle nrinds.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
Allan q. Thurnan'. Chickens

Allan q. Thurman hes the best assert
ment of chickens i'll the nCighLorhood,
and takes good care of them: bat, with
all his wealth, he keeps no horses Mrs.
Thurman is afraid to ride, AMI her nus
band does not care to.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
An Anecdote of Agassiz.

Edward f. Hale tells "A striking anec-
dote of Agassiz. In great publishing
house he saw the proofsheets of a school
book of natural history. Three butter
flies he said, .'only three i'll the book,
and not one of these three was ever in
America. Detroit Free Press.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS.
India's Prisoners Set Free,

Concerning the $4,000 prisoners lately
set free from jails i'm India. in honor
of the queen jubilee. it is said that none
were ordered to be released whose res
tOration to liberty would be n danger to
society. The question naturally is, Why.
then, Were they imprisoned?
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice.

All persons indebted to the late firm of
Richardson & Co., will please settle the
same at once, thereby saving cost of col
lection. j. n. BLACKWELL
my-6td&Itw Receiver.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

A Jewish drunkard. says The Hebrew
Journal, is one of the rareSt siyihs on
earth.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

Mrs. Cleveland's portraits, executed in
high cOlOrs. are now for sale on the Lon
don streets.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

The famous Cardiff giant, once so pop
lar. is now stored away in an old box at
FL P;lso. Tex.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

He can never speak well who knows
not how to hold his peace. -Plutarch.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
wasuer's Manner of Composing.

1t is impossible to speak with certainty
about Wagner's manner of composing.
He often laughed heartily when telling
about some composer, whom he had
visited, and found with a long pipe in
his mouth engaged in completing a
symphony, and who had complacently
shown his coisposition, turning back
ward and forward among the pages and
crying out while designating certain pas
sages: Here there is quiet; now it
grows angry; now it is becoming dra-
matte; here 1 let loose a thunderbOlt;
here we begin the down grade, and now
quiet again. the last word coming
through a cloud of tobacco smoke. 1t is
not necessary to- say that Wagner could
never compose in this manner. A glance
into his scores will disclose the exalted
seriousness with which he approached
his task and the Superearthly regions In
which me scared when he created his
ideal characters. BY the time that he
had written the posm of his drama
during the work ON which, of course,
much Of the music was originated
in his mind) he had already noted
down IA great number of the musical
thoughts upon loose pieces of music paper.
These notes he made in pencil and there
f.iti,t "a Nsiot tttttll HI tNlS-
tence which are being anXiously saved for
late posterity 10y Fran Cosima Wagner.
She has gradually gone over all of them
with ink, otherwise the majority of them
would have become iliesible. Only few
can boast of having received one of these
little sketches as souvenirs or reward from
the master in some moment of peculiarly
good humor.
After a considerable space had inter-
vened since the completion of the poem
and he had given himself wholly up to its
musical spirit, he was not to I've seen in
his family circle until O'Clock in the
afternoon. From ) O'Clock in the morn
ing until in the afternoon he worked
almost without interruption; sometimes
even longer. After dinner he rested, either
taking "A walk in the open air or attending
to his private correspondence. This lasted
until O'Clock, when supper was eaten.
Then the whole family met in the music
room To pass the time till l | or IL O'Clock
with music alternating with conversation
and the reading of essays.-Herr Anton
Seide in New York Tribune.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
American Architecture.

American architecture has been charged
with want of originality or invention. but
tins has been 10y persons who have not
understood the natural limits of original
ity in architectural form. On the con-
trary, we have more originality than we
have known what to do with. and we
have expended it in thousand vagaries.
What our architects have needed has not
been a spur to invention or a demand for
novelties. but some influence to check
their waywardness and hold them to one
manner of design till their work acquired
consistence and the public got instruc-
tion. And here we lack a balance wheel
which most older nations have. The
want of an old architecture by which the
taste of the intelligent is insensibly
formed means the want of a very i'm
portant guiding infiuence.-W. Z. p.
Longfellow in New Princeton Review.
Gen. Brialmont. the Belgian military
engineer who made a great sensation
among military men thirty years and
more ago by AN article on Powder
Magazines and is the author of a score
of standard works on the science of war.
has eclipsed all his former exploits by
condemning the elaborate Notifications
about Bucharest in Roumania- His
reasons are based upon the destructive
force of the new compound called mel
mite. There is probably nothing in
Europe in the way of Notifications, save
at Metz and Antwerp, that can rival
Bucharest; and if the Belgian general
can be trusted. the whole system of
modern rampant defense must be re
mosleled.-Boston Transcript
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

The silent man may he overlooked now,
bat he will get a hearing by and by.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31
Notice to CITY Tax PAYERS.

For RENT-Marrit ms Restaurant and
Hotel" Apply to r. r. REID. my22-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-31

The Gig Tax Books will close ON the
3lst inst. All delinquents after that
date will be advertised. f. S. Neck,
City Collector. my5-tje1
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-30
When Women Danced.
London saturday Eevlew.


1t is only within the LAST 800 wears that
Women have danced publicly with men.
In Italy, however, as eaIly as the thin
teenth century promiscuous dancing was
tolerated, although the church sternl7
condemned the innovation IS immodest
sud unbecoming, aud it was not at ell
general. When Henry Ill Of France,
visited Venice early In the sixteenth cen
tury there was q grand ball given IN bis
honor, to which all the noble ladies Of
Venice were invited. Nothing could ex-
coed the splenGOr of their dresses, and
the incredible number of enormous
pearls which they wore: but
whereas 800 of them danced in the
presence OF the King, not one of
them Was assisted by q male partner.
However, oanudo, in that part Of lis diary
in which ne gives minute details Of the
progress CT Lucrez,a BoTgia from Rome
to Ferrara on the occasion OF her mar
risge with her fourth husband. Informs us
that she was particularly fond Of dancing
the salts ana the bosora. Thus he tells
US on one occasion: "My lady Lurrtz,a,
the bride, being dressed in the French
style in crimson satin, striped with ism
scales Cf beaten gold, each stripe being
two fingers il breadth, and wearing on
her head Golf CT pearls Of great price,
danced the salta with the French Amb2s-
sedcr until it was tina to attend tae
performance of the "Mres Glori.
osus' CT Piautus." This sGla is
the original of our waltz, and was
frs. introduced Into these islands on the
occasion Of the marriage OF Msgdslene de
Valois with james V, Of Scotland, and
gave terrible scandal to the pious folk Of
Edinburgh. The pretty young Queen
died few days later, and her demise,
which was really the result OF consump-
ton, vas attributed to celestial punish
inert upon her for the iniquity of having
gyrsted in this naughty French dance"
The sslta was very popular at the court
at Henry VIII, and was quite as fashion
then as the waltz, with which it is ident-
icsl, is at the present time. Possibly It
was while dancing salta or volta, as it
was indiscriminately called, that this
uxorious monarch tell in love with Anne
Beleyn.